Robert Gentleman (Statistician)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert C. Gentleman who is born in Canada in 1959, is head of program in computational biology of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is is recognized, along with Ross Ihaka, as one of the originators of the R programming language. He got his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Washington. In computing, R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is an implementation of the S programming language created by John Chambers while at Bell Labs combined with lexical scoping semantics inspired by Scheme. R was created by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is now developed by the R Development Core Team, of which Chambers is a member. R is named partly after the first names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka), and partly as a play on the name of S.